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Geoportail 1947

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1 x SK/Scheinwerfer (searchlight).
3 x Vf58c Tobruk´s.
1 x Vf67 Pz.T.FT17 tank turret.
1 x R134 ammunition bunker.
1 x R667 casemate for a 5cm KwK gun.
1 x R606SK searchlight bunker.
1 x FA Unterstand.
1 x Pz.T.FT17 turret.
2 x 5cm KwK.

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Geoportail 1947

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02 June 1944 542 Sqn RAF

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On the 02 June 1944 a Supermarine Spitfire PR Mark XI, of No. 542 Squadron RAF based at Benson, Oxfordshire flew over and took the picture.
The anti-tank ditch can be seen behind the defence.

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Supermarine Spitfire XI Photo reconnaissance.

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Spitfire cameras..

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Spitfire cutaway.

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Anti-tank ditch on Omaha Beach.

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Anti-tank ditch on Omaha Beach.

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Anti-tank ditch on Omaha Beach.

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11 October 2017

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Walking in on the path from the modern housing estate. The three mounds R to L FA Unterstand for quarters, R134 ammunition bunker & an R606 SK bunker garage for a 60cm searchlight.

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VF Unterstand.

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R134 ammunition bunker.

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R606SK bunker garage for a 60cm searchlight.

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MKB Bunkertour

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The FA Unterstand could look like this but it is now covered in sand like all the three bunkers here.
Plan of an FA Unterstand showing the small bunker with trench blast walls around it.
Details supplied by MKB Bunkertour [Facebook].

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Unterstand.

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Unterstand.

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Plan.

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26 February 2005 StP StP Louise, Grand Fort Philippe (ouest)

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This is what the R134 would have looked like but now covered in sand. A long passage running across the front of the bunker and two ammunition rooms off to the right with two 434P01 split armoured doors.

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R134 ammunition bunker.

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Passage with two doors on the left.

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An ammunition room.

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434P01 door.

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Plan.

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11 October 2017 Wn92 Wigwam an SK

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The main picture is from Wn92 Wigwam near Isigny.
Its the same sort of style of bunker that is here with a large door on the left for the searchlight garage and on the right the crew room.
The one here is an R606SK and also covered in sand and is inaccessible.

SK - Sonderkonstruktionen (Special construction,

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SK type searchlight garage at StP Kerlohic the picture is the chimney to allow hot air and exhaust fumes to rise out of the bunker, also as an emergency escape for the soldiers inside and the plan showing the exhaust passage and chimney.

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Plan.

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The path to the sands.

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Wn226 Nacqueville Les Quais Tobruk

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Tucked away down the beach on the right is a Vf67 Tobruk for a Pz.T.FT17 tank turret. The turret would have had a Mitrailleuse Mle 31(f) inside it.

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Vf67 Pz.T.FT17.

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Pz.T.FT17 tank turret.

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Mitrailleuse Mle s.MG.331(f).

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Vf67 Pz.T.FT17 from the air.

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German defence plan

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This is the German plan of all the Wn´s and StP´s and also MF (mine fields) with MF14 & MF103 around the defence.
Wn - Wilderstandsnester - resistance nest.
StP - Stützgpunkt - group of size resistance nest.

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The FA Unterstand covered in sand.
FA - Feldmaßige - Field type construction.

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The gap in the grass is where I came through onto the beach and this Vf58c Tobruk sits almost hidden under the dune.

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Plan of a Vf58c Tobruk.

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Tobruk.

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Tobruk.

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Plan.

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Bits that may or may not have been left over from the war.

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Two parts of a beach obstacle or Rommel’s Asparagus.

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Assembling the six parts of this type of beach obstacle.

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Looking down the left side of the beach to the major part of this defence.

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First the Ringstand for a searchlight, R667 casemate and then an. nr.1694 Ringstand. Beyond is a Tobruk.

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60cm searchlight in an emplacement.

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R667 casemate.

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nr.1694 Ringstand.

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Left an ammunition niche, searchlight emplacement and another possible ammunition niche or are they??.

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Plan.

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Ammunition niche but I could not find any opening.

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Snail shaped entrance into the searchlight emplacement.

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View from above.

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Plinth to sit the 60cm searchlight on.

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60cm searchlight sat on a plinth like this one.

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Generator.

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There are two niches either side but as this is not a weapons pit I do not know what they were for.

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Small niche possibly for a telephone connection to the bunker behind.

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Field telephone relay box socket.

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Wehrmacht Feldfernsprecher FF33 1935 original Feldtelefon.

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This is the R667 casemate for a 5cm KwK L/60 gun.

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5cm KwK L/60 gun.

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R667 rear entrance not hidden by a sand dune.

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R667 casemate covering the western end of the beach.

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Plan.

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Elevation R667.

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Plan R667.

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A very badly damaged Nr.1694 Ringstand for a 5cm KwK gun. These guns were ex tank guns and very good they were, but by 1944 they were redundant as all new tanks had 7.5cm & 8.8cm were being fitted. So as there were so many guns left over a bunker mounting was made. First these guns were set into Nr.1694 ringstands, sometimes in much bigger ringstands with crew rooms below. Then to strengthen Nr.1694 some ringstands had a wall and lid to cover the seaward side of the gun. Several double casemates where the gun can pivot from one side of the beach to the other and last of all a casemate set to flank the beach an R667.

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Nr.1694 Ringstand.

Here the rough time line of 5cm KwK bunkers.

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Nr.1694 Ringstand with a wall and lid added.

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Vf double stand bunker.

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Plan of an R667 casemate.

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This is the hold fast of the 5cm KwK gun. And the second picture is the Lafette base plate of the 5cm KwK gun (at Fort de Roule, Cherbourg) that fitted into the hole.

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5cm KwK gun.

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5cm KwK gun.

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The gun base fitted to the hold fast and due to have the gun fitted in the top.

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Ammunition niche.

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Ammunition and boxes.

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Vf58c Tobruk.

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Vf58c plan.

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Tobruk No.3 in the field covering the rear.

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The main defence covering the western beach.

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Eisenpfahel barbed wire post.

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Eisenpfahel point.

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Wiring the beach.

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Wiring the beach.

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